Rail-joint.



W.'M. lUGH. RAIL JOINT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1913.

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Patented Apr. 21, 19M

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WILLIAM M. PUGH, 0F POCAHONTAS, VIRGINIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application filed September 29, 1813. Serial No. 792,343.

To all whom it may concern:

provided with my, invention; and Figs-2 and 3 are transverse vertical sections taken thrmigh different parts of the rail joint.

- The object of this invention is to provide a simple nut locking device which will at the same time serve as a means for preventthe projecting ends of the joint bolts from being struck and thus cut off or broken by the wheel flanges should the train vehicle leave the rails, as more fully hereinaf: tcr set forth.

The usual fish. plates a and the usual joint bolts 2) are employed. Glamped to the face of one of the fish plates by the usual nuts 6 is a. plate dand carried by this plate (Z is plurality of short bolts ewhose threaded ends pro ect outwardly at points between the joint bolts. A. nut locking bar f clamped. to the face of the plate of by i means of the bolts 6 and nuts g thereon.

the joint bolts 6, each end of this flange k being beveled off at 2'. With this construct on, it will be observed that should the train vehicle leave." the rails, the flange h will guide or throw the wheel flanges away from the projectin ends of the bolts b and thus prevent the W ieel flanges from striking the bolts. It has frequently occurred in train wrecks that the damage'was k reatly increased by the disrupting of the rai ljoints by the wheel flanges striking against the projecting ends ofthe bolts and breaking the bolts. This invention completely obviates the possibility of this occurring, while, at the same time, the nuts are locked against being accidentally loosened.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is In combination with a rail joint embodying the usual fish plates and bolts and nuts, of a plate a? clamped by the aforesaid nuts against the adjacent face of the fish plate, a bar 7 and supplemental bolts forromovably clamping the same against the face of said plate d, this bar being provided with portions which depend between the nuts on the joint bolts and also being provided along its upper edge above said nuts with a longitudinal flange beveled at each end and projecting outwardly beyond the nuts, for the purposes set forth! In testimony whereof l hereunto afiix my signature in the presenc' l of two Witnesses.

WVILL M. PUGH.

Witnesses i Jns. D. STERALSBYJ SIDNEY BLOCH. j 

